Computational model of temperature elevation in rats exposed to intense and localized exposure at 1.5 GHZ
Résumé
We simulate the following exposure scenario of our measurement in order to investigate the time course of temperature elevation due to microwave exposure: rats are anesthetized and their heads were fixed in a stereotaxic apparatus and locally exposed to 1,457 MHz microwave emitted from an “8”-shaped loop antenna. The core temperature was maintained at 36±0.4°C in sham exposure using a heating pad (42°C) to avoid the reduction in basal metabolism under anesthesia. In our computational method, change in core temperature is taken into account. A reasonable agreement was observed between measured and computed temperature elevations.